Senior PHP Developer
Location: NZ, N, Auckland
Department: Product
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Information Technology and Services
Function: Human Resources

Company profile:
Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.

Job description:
Vend is growing - big time. We are taking our most magnificent retail platform to the next level and we need YOU. We particularly need to scale up the years of experience in development for our Product team as our work gets bigger, our customer base grows and the complexity of our projects increase. To give you some background Vend is a Kiwi SaaS company that builds software for retailers. It’s been a helluva ride as we’ve gone from one guy with a mo, through to building a grown up company. With tens of thousands of users! In more than 100 countries! And with offices in Auckland, Melbourne, San Fran and Toronto! We're looking for experienced PHP developers, but like any modern SaaS company that's just one tiny piece of the puzzle. Our stack includes Redis, Reque, Nginx, Symfony, Doctrine, JavaScript, Compass, Ruby, and heaps more (if the tool helps us get shit done, we'll use it). We live and breathe continuous deployment, and our devops toolset is built to support this with Git, Vagrant, Puppet, Jenkins, Capistrano, NewRelic, Rake tasks, and a full-house test suite from PHPUnit and Mocha through to Selenium. You need to be a collaborative developer. Most of our work starts around whiteboards and our Kanban wall. We're not precious about ownership - everyone needs to muck in and solve problems. Our process is lightweight, and we value people who can support our "Just Fucking Do It" attitude to "impossible" problems. Whether those are great features to launch for our customers or the usual bug fixes and optimising you'd expect with a fast-paced SaaS product.If you'd like some specifics about the kinds of things you'd be working on we'd be more than happy to have you come into our office for a coffee so we can run you through what we have ahead. We're an upfront bunch at Vend so you can come in and ask us anything you like.We want people to join our Developer team who...Write beautiful, fast PHP to a high standard, in a timely and scalable way that improves the code-base of our products in meaningful waysCan mentor and teach our talented team to be even more awesomeKnows MySQL inside outActively contributes to conversations across the teams about the application architecture and design and about how we can better follow best practicesIdeally has experience building a scalable SaaS product e.g. automated deployment, automated test suitesHas an appreciation for our customers (our wondeful retailers all over the world) and how what we do every day helps them and their businessIs a member of the tech community when it comes to attending (or speaking) at meetups &amp; conferences and has a strong desire to teach and share. 

Requirements:
We’re particularly looking for people who:Have a minimum of 8 years experience as a developerBe experienced with multi-tier software architectureHave experience writing automated tests and a strong commitment to qualityUnderstand relational databases and knows how to write SQLUnderstand MVC patternsAre curious and have an appetite for learning (and teaching of course)Have familiarity and an enthusiasm for working in an Agile teamAlso, extra bonus points if you’ve worked in retail before!

Benefits:
In return for all of your hard work we’ll pay you a competitive salaryWe’ll also give you a $5,000 allowance per year to develop your skills and attend conferences of your choice. Within reason, of course. We turned down the guy who wanted to use the five large to go to a heavy metal concert on a cruise ship. You’ll get other perks in the office like having a sweet place to work, where weirdness is welcomed and encouraged. You’ll get fresh fruit, and lollies (a balanced diet!). We have plenty of baking supplies so you can bake us cookies anytime you like. You can choose to work from a couch or a standing desk or a sitting desk.   And lastly, you’ll get the opportunity to join one hell of a crazy awesome ride with us. There aren’t very many New Zealand-based SaaS companies who are in the same position to dent the world so come join us!